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16:44, 17 December 2014
As reported by the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the versions of a fire from a short circuit in the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in no longer considered – the main version of the reason of the fire is arson.
14:40, 17 December 2014
The consideration of the claim lodged by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Chechen Republic against the athlete Murad Amriev, who stated that he had been kidnapped and tortured at the police of Grozny, has been postponed till December 25.
13:05, 17 December 2014
Hassan Zakayev, who is now in custody in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in the capture of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre on October 23, 2002, is suspected of aiding the militants who carried out the above act.
10:25, 17 December 2014
The criminal case initiated against a local resident Khasan Edilkhanov, a suspect of involvement in the war in Syria for the militants, who was detained at Moscow airport, has been delivered ton the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya.
01:16, 17 December 2014
A series of solo pickets in support of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders and the Committee against Torture (CaT) in Chechnya was held on December 16 in Moscow without detentions; however, agents of the FSO (Russia's Federal Security Service) and FSB fixed the personal data of the activists who took part in the action.
21:24, 16 December 2014
Social packages will be no longer paid out to militants' relatives, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated, again pointing out that his republic will enforce the collective responsibility of families for actions of militants.
18:44, 16 December 2014
The field commander of Syrian militants Jundallah Shishani, whose death in the city of Cobani became known on December 8, originated from the same village in the Georgia's Pankisi Gorge as the commander of the northern sector of the "Islamic State" (IS) Tarkhan Batirashvili, also known as Omar Shishani.
16:19, 16 December 2014
The lawyers of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders, working in Chechnya, have appealed to law enforcement bodies asking them to conduct a check the fact of visit to their office of three men and the subsequent fire in the premises, as well as the fact of persecuting them by men in masks on December 13.
14:24, 16 December 2014
Residents of the city of Gudermes have reported the destruction, within the past two days, of two private houses inhabited by relatives of the militants killed during the attack on Grozny on December 4. According to journalist Elena Milashina, families with young children are now homeless.
12:59, 16 December 2014
Construction workers are repairing the facade of the house in Grozny, which houses the burnt-out office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders. Local observers do not rule out that the fire in the office could be committed by people dissatisfied with their work.
19:24, 15 December 2014
Prior to the fire in the office, some Chechen rights defenders had been deliberately spreading false information about the activities of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and inflating the situation, said Igor Kalyapin, the head of the CaT.
09:00, 15 December 2014
Burned down houses of militants' relatives in Chechnya; condemnation by Russian rights defenders of principle of collective responsibility, and the subsequent incidents with them in Grozny; end of hunger strike in Dagestan demanding to restore Tarki District; Geneva discussions on safety in Southern Caucasus; attacks on oppositionactivists in Armenia; next humanitarian convoy from Russia to Donbas; special operations in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, during which nine suspected militants were killed, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 8-14, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
08:16, 15 December 2014
Employees of the Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have stood up for the Chechen Committee against Torture (CaT), indicating the damage of CaT's property and attempts to put pressure on rights defenders.
17:30, 14 December 2014
Policemen have searched lawyers of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and confiscated their mobile phones, cameras and laptops, rights defenders report.
00:39, 14 December 2014
Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation, has got involved in the situation around the staff of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture (CaT), acting in the territory of Chechnya.